Computers today have achieved attention of the global audience to an extent never before seen on this earth. We humans have amazing capabilities that computers can't dream of, for example we are extremely brilliant to identify what we DON'T know. If you ask someone if s/he knows what is the meaning of 'Mameluke', s/he will answer immediately 'no' if s/he doesn't know it. Just that easy for us. But ask the biggest database in the world for any kind of information, and it will need time to search the full database just to identify if it has the information or not.And with this attention comes the power to influence people's thinking which has indeed given a raise to an open question: Are computers smarter than a human brain? Are they more intelligent?
Computers will never be as smart as humans because they can only do what a programmer “teaches” them to do, and the programmer cannot teach them more than a subset of what he himself knows as "an intelligent creation has to have an intelligent creator" but Why is the idea wrong? Because it assumes that an intelligent creation has to have an intelligent creator.an,an intelligent creation has to have an intelligent creator
On our first thought, we might think that computer are superior to human brain. Computer can perform complex task very quickly, it has a huge storage and does not forget information as easily as human brain. Computer is not tired performing complex string of tasks while we human need to take a coffee break every couple of hour to keep our mind functioning properly.
However, these task are virtue of faster processing speed and diligence rather than intelligence. Computer are not able to adapt and learn new things like human brain. Our brain is capable of analyzing new and unfamiliar system in a way computer cannot. It can also recognize complex patterns while in computer it is limited to only superficial level. Also, computers today are not capable of learning from past experience as us human and rely mainly on the information it gets during the operation and that limitation of computer make it inferior to human brain.
Even though, the task of creating an intelligent computer have eluded computer scientists and engineers for decades they have not given up. Moreover, they have been succeeded in it more than ever before. We have systems that can understand narrow subsets of human language, solve problems in well-defined areas of knowledge, navigate restricted real world spaces without human assistance, and perform other limited tasks. Also, Scientist in IBM developed a super computer Deep Blue that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. This feat is considered to be most significant breakthrough in task of creating truly intelligent machine.
As much as we have talked about intelligent computers there must be a method for distinguishing a whether a machine is intelligent or not. There are several method for testing this and the most influential but also highly criticized is called the Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950. It requires a judge to engage in natural conversation with a human being and a machine which is designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of human being. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. A program named ELIZA, developed by
Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966, is claimed by some programmer to have passed the Turing Test but this view is highly contentious. Till today scientists and engineers are developing program that can successfully pass the Turing test with any contention.
Development of intelligent system has come a long way, near intelligent system which can perform various task without human interference has been developed and such system is being called Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). An autonomous vehicle developed by DARPA (Defense and Research Project Agency) of US and Carnegie Mellon University drove almost 2850 miles from Washington DC to San Diego without human help. PEGASUS, a spoken language interface connected to American Airlines is used to obtain flight information and make flight reservation over the phone. Major Smart-phone companies are equipping their device with personal assistant which can perform near human conversation and learns and displays information according to how user use their device.
A number of artificial intelligence (AI) enthusiasts have been predicting that machines will eventually surpass human intelligence in the foreseeable future. In some cases, when tasks are easily broken down into sequential, smaller arithmetical components, computers outperform the human brain, reflecting the lack of adaptation of the later to such problems. Despite this, the current overall consensus in the field is that computers still need to evolve significantly to match the efficiency and complexity of the brain. Unlike computer power, which is very well defined, we are still far from understanding how to express the processing power of the human brain.
At the fundamental level, the intelligence of machines, as well as the cognition of the brain is a based on the storage of information and electrical currents conducted through highly specialized and sophisticated architecture of wires. In machines, these signals flow at the speed of light while in the brain, the velocity of impulse conduction in the axons is between 0.2-120 m/s. Supercomputers have approached roughly the estimated computing power of the brain, several petaflops, but at an enormous cost: about 10 million watts of power consumption versus 20 watts in the brain.
However, with development of intelligent machine human being will have to prepare for new changes socially and mentally as well. Humans are used to seeing themselves as the only intelligent beings in the world. If we are going to deal with truly intelligent computers, we will have to adjust very deep beliefs about our uniqueness and superiority. For intelligent computers will not only possess human-level capabilities, they may be functionally immortal and ultimately possess powers beyond our ken. Initially, they may be dependent upon us, but, if we do not deliberately impede their progress, they could become autonomous in relatively short order. Under these circumstances, it is unclear whether they would integrate into our society or form a parallel civilization. As mechanical beings, intelligent computers could potentially modify themselves much more rapidly than humans and evolve at a faster pace.
For as long as computers have been around, they've been doing things better than humans. But we cannot deny the fact that when logic is concerned, we humans rule. So for today, in the question of which is more intelligent, Human brain takes away the title. Computers are only as smart as their users and programmers are.
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